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Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth on Tuesday criticized Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk as "irresponsible" for recently signing an open letter to the government of Iran regarding ongoing nuclear talks. The remark came at Duckworth's first news conference since announcing via video on Monday that she would seek the Democratic nomination next year in a run for Kirk's seat. Duckworth was referencing a letter signed this month by 47 Republican senators who warned Iranian officials that any nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration could expire as soon as the president leaves office. Democrats argue the letter interferes with talks to curtail Iran's...

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Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth on Tuesday criticized Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk as "irresponsible" for recently signing an open letter to the government of Iran regarding ongoing nuclear talks.The remark came at Duckworth's first...

Spence Jackson provided the official confirmation a month ago that his boss, Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich, was dead from what police described as a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
On Monday, police confirmed that Jackson had shot himself in an apparent...

— Rep. Tammy Duckworth's challenge to Republican Sen. Mark Kirk portends a costly battle in what figures to be one of the most closely watched 2016 Senate contests.
Duckworth, 47, a two-term Democrat from Hoffman Estates who lost her legs in the Iraq War...

BOSTON — Even though Ted Kennedy died less than six years ago, the Senate today is a changed institution, President Barack Obama said Monday as he remembered the Massachusetts senator and Democratic Party icon.
Obama, the keynote speaker at the...

U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth announced Monday that she's running for the U.S. Senate in 2016, setting up a high-profile challenge to Republican Sen. Mark Kirk's re-election bid.
"I'm running for the United States Senate in 2016 because it's time for...

Bob of Oak Forest states that legislators aligned with the "Democratic Chicago Machine" have "misused our money for decades." While true, he forgets that Republicans are also in the legislature and were happy to go along with the...

Aside from a few non-veteran supporters and those who served in other wars, Monday's fifth annual Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day was celebrated by Vietnam veterans for Vietnam veterans.
"We don't care if we raise awareness. The people who spit on...

Closing in on an expected announcement that he will run for president, Sen. Marco Rubio said Monday that he is planning a political event in two weeks in Miami to announce his 2016 plans.
The first-term Republican from Florida, appearing...

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley took a swipe at 2016 contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jeb Bush on Sunday, saying that "the presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families."
Appearing on ABC's...

An abscess of anger seems to gnaw at Hillary Clinton, but the reasons for her resentments remain unclear. The world's oldest party, which governed the nation during two world wars and is the primary architect of America's regulatory and redistributive...

Second-term U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth is expected to announce her candidacy Monday for the U.S. Senate and a potential challenge to Republican Sen. Mark Kirk, a source familiar with her plans said.
Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran, will be the first...

Like a suitcase on the world’s longest luggage carousel, Hillary Clinton’s all-but-assured presidential candidacy is now drifting back toward us, begging to be claimed whether or not we still want — or even remember — what is packed inside.Oh, right....

SPRINGFIELD - State Sen. Jim Oberweis (R-Sugar Grove) joined a bipartisan group of Senate lawmakers March 26 to pass a bipartisan plan that protects funding for childcare programs, prevents layoffs of court reporters and corrections workers, and solves...

SPRINGFIELD - State Sen. Chris Nybo (R-Elmhurst) joined a bipartisan group of Senate lawmakers March 26 to pass a bipartisan plan that addresses funding shortfalls many state agencies were facing under the currently unbalanced state budget.
Nybo said...

Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. left an Alabama federal prison early Thursday bound for a halfway house, where he begins his transition back into society two years after pleading guilty to spending roughly $750,000 in campaign money on personal items....

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough recently spoke to J Street, a left-wing organization that fancies itself the headquarters of the tough-love-for-Israel crowd. J Street’s critics would phrase it a bit differently. In a charitable mood, they’d say...

Court reporters and officials in Lake County Circuit Court breathed a collective sigh of relief Thursday afternoon when the Illinois Senate narrowly approved a budget fix that addressed a shortfall in funding for the courthouse duty.
Lake County's 21...

GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz could soon be buying his family's health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act he has vowed to dismantle. Cruz, whose Senate filibuster against the law he derides as “Obamacare” led to a partial government...

The Clinton saga continues unrelentingly. We recently learned of Hillary Clinton’s refusal to complete the necessary separation documents as required by law when she left the State Department. Allegations exploded of her conducting government...

The Glenbard Parent Series: (GPS) Navigating Healthy Families will present Parents, Teens, Parties and the Law: Emerging Trends on Tuesday, April 14, at Glenbard East High School.
Join Glenbard for this compelling discussion of the realities of the...